anistēmi · rise, raise

What it means

anistēmi (ἀνίστημι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “rise, raise”.

Get up, stand up; also rise from the dead.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stand up, or set out somewhere.
2. To come back to life.
3. To bring someone forward: God sends a prophet.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

To raise or to rise, to stand up; hence to rise from the dead. It is a compound of ἀνά, “up”, and ἵστημι, “to make stand” (G2476). From it comes ἀνάστασις, “resurrection”.

• Getting up to set out Mark 1:35Luke 15:18
• Getting up after sickness or death Mark 5:42
• Rising again: “after three days rise” Mark 8:31John 11:23
• “I will raise him up on the last day” John 6:401 Thessalonians 4:16
• Rising up at the judgment Matthew 12:41

How we translate it

“Get up” 18 times, “rise” 16, “he got up” 12, “stood up” 12, “got up” 6, “rose up” 6, “will raise up” 5… It is translated “rise” or “raise up” when the matter is coming back from death (Mark 8:31; John 6:40), and “get up” or “stand up” when it is getting to one's feet; it is the same choice this edition makes for ἐγείρω, “raise” (G1453).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Get up ×18
• rise ×16
• he got up ×12
• stood up ×12
• got up ×6
• rose up ×6
• rising ×5
• will raise up ×5
• rose ×4
• raised up ×3
• others ×21

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×17
• Luke×27
• John×8
• Acts×45
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• Hebrews×2

• Matthew 9:9

  And passing on from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he says to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.

• Matthew 12:41

  The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they changed their minds at the proclamation of Jonah; and look, something greater than Jonah is here.

• Matthew 22:24

  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Matthew 26:62

  And the high priest stood up and said to him, “Do you answer nothing? What are these men testifying against you?”

• Mark 1:35

  And very early, while it was still night, he got up and went out and went away to a deserted place, and there he was praying.

• Mark 2:14

  And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he says to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.

• Mark 3:26

  And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he has an end.

• Mark 5:42

  And at once the girl got up and was walking; for she was twelve years old. And at once they were overcome with great amazement.

• Mark 7:24

  And getting up from there, he went away into the region of Tyre. And he entered into a house and wanted no one to know it, and he could not escape notice.

• Mark 8:31

  And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise.

• Mark 9:9

  And as they were coming down from the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

• Mark 9:10

  And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what the rising from the dead meant.

• Mark 9:27

  But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.

• Mark 9:31

  for he was teaching his disciples and saying to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he has been killed, after three days he will rise.”

• Mark 10:1

  And getting up from there, he goes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gather around him again, and as was his custom, he was again teaching them.

• Mark 10:34

  and they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

• Mark 12:23

  In the resurrection, when they rise, which of them will she be wife to? For the seven had her as wife.”

• Mark 12:25

  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

• Mark 14:57

  And some stood up and were bearing false witness against him, saying,

• Mark 14:60

  And the high priest stood up in the middle and questioned Jesus, saying, “Do you not answer anything? What is it that these men are testifying against you?”

• Mark 16:9

  Longer ending: Now having risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

• Luke 1:39

  And in those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

• Luke 4:16

  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and according to his custom he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

• Luke 4:29

  and rising up, they drove him out of the town, and they led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, so as to throw him down the cliff.

• Luke 4:38

  And rising to go from the synagogue, he went into Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was gripped by a high fever, and they asked him about her.

• Luke 4:39

  And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she got up and began serving them.

• Luke 5:25

  And immediately he got up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went away to his home, glorifying God.

• Luke 5:28

  And leaving behind everything, he got up and began following him.

• Luke 6:8

  But he knew their reasonings, and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up and stand in the middle.” And he got up and stood there.

• Luke 8:55

  And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately; and he directed that something be given her to eat.

• Luke 9:8

  and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the ancient prophets had risen.

• Luke 9:19

  And they answered and said, “John the Immerser; but others, Elijah; and others, that one of the ancient prophets has risen.”

• Luke 10:25

  And look, a certain expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Luke 11:7

  and that one from inside answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’?

• Luke 11:8

  I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

• Luke 11:32

  The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they changed their minds at the proclamation of Jonah, and look, something greater than Jonah is here.

• Luke 15:18

  I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

• Luke 15:20

  And he got up and went to his own father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and running, he fell on his neck and kissed him.

• Luke 16:31

  But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

• Luke 17:19

  And he said to him, “Get up and go; your faith has saved you.”

And 68 more times.